Today my challenge is to break through a blogging blank. Time and again I get this ideas of what I need to blog about but when I sit down to blog I actually sit with a blank. The reason for this is simply being exhaustingly busy at the moment. My world is racing forward with multiple different streams of momentum in a conjecture at this moment in time. I should not be complaining about it, it is actually one of my most fortunate times and times to really make a difference. My work projects are ramping up and my personal life is also ramping up in the flow of fundamental change.
So today I am simply sitting down and I am writing what is coming up in my mind to simply keep building the habit of blogging. I am still smitten by the idea of building my skills through developing healthy and uplifting habits. In a sense a focus on good habits ultimately crowds out bad habits because there is less time and attraction for bad habits to be perpetuated.
Some people see that my tracking of habits is pedantic. I track my habits in an app called “Mastery”. It is a very simple App but it is effective in tracking my daily habits and it takes about a maximum of 10 to 15 entries a day with most habits and skills already preset. I am tracking currently 5o skills accross 15 skill development areas:
- Dancing
- Divination
- Finances
- General
- Home
- Mindfulness
- Off Roading
- Professional
- Qi-Gong
- Reiki
- Mysticism
- Tai Chi
- TRE
- Writing
- Yoga
These areas are likely to increase. It helps me to understand how I spend my time and what skills I am developing. This approach has significantly changed my approach to how I plan and view my work. For example I am no longer just attending meetings in my workplace but I am looking at attending meetings as a skill. So now my approach is to look at how I want to improve my skill. Rather than just attending a meeting I view the meeting as an opportunity to become better at contributing to meetings. So besides just documenting that I spend 180 minutes in meetings today I look accross those meetings and I evaluate at the end of the day my skill within meetings. Did I communicate more effectively, how well did I contribute. So having logged the habits I spend my time on assist me to evaluate if I am just doing the habit as a matter of course or if I am consciously improving how I approach that habit to turn it into a skill. One person can attend a thousand meetings without any skill development but another who is conscious of that as a skill development opportunity will experience a vase differnce between the first and the last meeting.
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